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Moses was God’s spokesman, and God had promised to raise up another prophet like Moses (Deut 18:15, 18). Elijah had spoken on God’s behalf and did signs and wonders, as Jesus would also do.
Why did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed cross the road? The question, of course, recalls an old riddle about a chicken. The riddle goes back at least to 1847 when it appeared in a New York ...
In Deut. 18:15-22, God tells Moses, and through him the people, that he "will raise up for them a prophet like me from among you," to whom the people are to pay heed.
The distinctive features of the Johannine account include the characterization of Jesus’ action as a “sign” and the identification of him as a prophet. A sign points to something else.
Deedat argues that just as there are prophecies about Jesus, similar reasoning can be applied to Muhammad, particularly through the lens of Deuteronomy 18:18, which speaks of a prophet like Moses.
Jesus' ability to defeat death, heal people and produce food and drink elevated him above Roman gods in the eyes of many people. A wand would have enhanced that image.